HI364 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Compulsory Sterilization, Social Isolation, Racial Hygiene
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Hi364 lesson 2: the nazis in power 1933-39. The nazis to 1933 & the seizure of power. Long-term context for & causes of holocaust: anti-semitism, from imperial germany to weimar, nazi seizure of power, chancellor hitler, reichstag fire decree 1933, enabling act 1933. Bread & work : political tactics, hitler, anti-semitism, anti-communism, traditional political elites. Anti-jewish measures to 1939: relationship between this period and wartime, eugenics. Political opponents: built to concentrate political prisoners (opponents) who couldn"t be handled by the prison system, communists were primary victims of the camps, not jews, communist jews were treated more harshly than non-jews. To 1945: exist up until 1945, throughout germany and austria. Terminology: not death camps, most people don"t die in concentration camps, death camps built in 1942 for the express purpose of killing people. Hitler"s worldview (weltanschauung: life is a biological struggle between races and nations, understood that struggle was in large part based on a developmental pyramid.
